Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 39

Now, don't be a dog in the manger, for if _you_ get all you want, what can it matter to you if _I_ am rich or poor?"

Who acts: you, I · What happens: do, not be, get, want, matter, be · To what, where: manger, dog, you

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 do	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 dog	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 dog	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 do	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 manger	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 manger	det
10	manger	manger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 do	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 get	mark
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 get	mark
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 if	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 get	nsubj
16	_	_	PART	_	17 get	mark
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 do	parataxis
18	all	all	ADV	_	20 want	advmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 want	nsubj
20	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 get	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 matter	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 matter	obj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 matter	aux
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 matter	expl
25	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 get	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 matter	obl
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 rich	mark
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 if	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 rich	nsubj
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 I	punct
32	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 rich	cop
33	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 matter	advcl
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 poor	cc
35	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 rich	conj
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here			the manger	now		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	infinitive		a dog					tree rules
3	get a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	want	present	you					all property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	matter	can		manger	you				tree rules
6	is a condition, not said to happen	present	I					rich property	tree rules
7	be		I not said here						tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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